Guild’s Annual Juried Member Show Opens Saturday

Ridgefield Guild of Artists’ seventh annual Juried Member Show opens this Saturday, May 13^th, with a reception from 4-6pm.  Helen Kauder, Executive Director for Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut, juried a wide variety of members’ artwork for this year’s exhibition. Prizes for first, second and third place winners will be awarded at the opening reception.  As always, it is free and open to the public. 

Helen Kauder is currently the Executive Director of Artspace New Haven and co-founder of the City-Wide Open Studios festival. Before returning to Artspace in 2010, she served as Deputy Director of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Earlier, she was a Vice-President at Citibank and the Director of University Licensing Programs at Yale University. She has been recognized for her long service to the art sector through Connecticut’s Office of the Arts’ Elizabeth Mahaffey award, and an Elm-Ivy award, Yale’s highest honor for town-grown bridge building. She has previously served on the Board of Artspace as Treasurer, and later Board Chair. She holds an MBA in Accounting/Finance from the University of Chicago and an SB in Economics from MIT.

Artspace is a visionary and dynamic non-profit organization championing emerging artists and building new audiences for contemporary art. It’s exhibition and commissioning programs (in the gallery, out of doors, and city-wide) encourage experimentation, discovery, and lively civic discourse, while fostering appreciation for the vital role that artists play in improving their community.

Guild member, Emilya Padlowski, offers Life in Art: Evolving Search and Experiment,an exhibition of her paintings, collages and soft sculptures in the Upstairs Gallery., opening Saturday, May 13^th, as well. 

Both shows continue through Sunday, June 18^th.  Ridgefield Guild of Artists is located at 34 Halpin Lane with gallery hours, Wednesday – Sunday, 12-4pm.  For more information, visit rgoa.org or call 203.438.8863.